Alan MacDonald, H.C. Bonsor, Kazi Matin Ahmed, W. G. Burgess et al.
Abhijit Mukherjee, Dipankar Saha, Charles F. Harvey, Richard G. Taylor et al.
The Indian Sub-Continent is one of the most densely populated regions of the world, hosting ∼23% of the global population within only ∼3% of the world's land area. It encompasses some of the world's largest fluvial systems in the world (River Brahmaputra, Ganges and Indus Basins), which hosts some o...
Abhijit Mukherjee, Poulomee Coomar, Soumyajit Sarkar, Karen H. Johannesson et al.
Abhijit Mukherjee, Alan E. Fryar, William A. Thomas
H.C. Bonsor, Alan MacDonald, Kazi Matin Ahmed, W. G. Burgess et al.
The Indo-Gangetic aquifer is one of the world's most important transboundary water resources, and the most heavily exploited aquifer in the world. To better understand the aquifer system, typologies have been characterized for the aquifer, which integrate existing datasets across the Indo-Gangetic c...
Abhijit Mukherjee, Mattias von Brömssen, Bridget R. Scanlon, Prosun Bhattacharya et al.
Although arsenic (As) contamination of groundwater in the Bengal Basin has received wide attention over the past decade, comparative studies of hydrogeochemistry in geologically different sub-basins within the basin have been lacking. Groundwater samples were collected from sub-basins in the western...
Madhumita Chakraborty, Abhijit Mukherjee, Kazi Matin Ahmed
Madhumita Chakraborty, Soumyajit Sarkar, Abhijit Mukherjee, Mohammad Shamsudduha et al.
For the last few decades, toxic levels of arsenic (As) in groundwater from the aquifers of the Ganges River delta, India and Bangladesh, have been known to cause serious public health concerns. Innumerable studies have advocated the control of geomorphologic, geologic, hydrogeologic, biogeochemical,...
Pankaj Kumar, Ram Avtar, Rajarshi Dasgupta, Brian Alan Johnson et al.
Rapid global changes (population growth, urbanization and frequent extreme weather conditions) have cumulatively affected local water bodies and resulted in unfavorable hydrological, ecological, and environmental changes in the major river systems. Particularly, communities in isolated riverine isla...
Pragnaditya Malakar, Abhijit Mukherjee, Soumendra N. Bhanja, R.K. Ray et al.
Pragnaditya Malakar, Abhijit Mukherjee, Soumendra N. Bhanja, Auroop R. Ganguly et al.
Groundwater plays a major role in human adaptation and ecological sustainability against climate variability by providing global water and food security. In the Indus-Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna aquifers (IGBM), groundwater abstraction has been reported to be one of the primary contributors to groundw...
W. G. Burgess, Mohammad Shamsudduha, Richard G. Taylor, Anwar Zahid et al.
Groundwater-level fluctuations represent hydraulic responses to changes in groundwater storage due to aquifer recharge and drainage as well as to changes in stress that include water mass loading and unloading above the aquifer surface. The latter 'poroelastic' response of confined aquifers is a wel...
Ashis Biswas, Bibhash Nath, Prosun Bhattacharya, Dipti Halder et al.
A low-cost rapid screening tool for arsenic (As) and manganese (Mn) in groundwater is urgently needed to formulate mitigation policies for sustainable drinking water supply. This study attempts to make statistical comparison between tubewell (TW) platform color and the level of As and Mn concentrati...
Khan Mz, Holly A. Michael, Bibhash Nath, Linden Huhmann et al.
Abstract Elevated arsenic in Bengal Basin aquifers threatens human health. Most deep (>150 m) groundwater in Pleistocene aquifers is low in arsenic; however higher concentrations have been reported in the southwest border region. Here, we establish that this extensive arsenic contamination at dep...
Madhumita Chakraborty, Abhijit Mukherjee, Kazi Matin Ahmed
Arsenic (As) dynamics within the extensively contaminated aquifers of the Ganges River delta have been widely studied over the past few decades, but the varied hydrogeochemical signatures across the delta aquifers remain to be characterized. Here, we characterize the varied hydrogeochemical and isot...